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Grade 4 – Healthy Living

Grade 4 Overall Expectations:

1 – Understanding Health Concepts

Healthy Eating

Identify the key nutrients provided by foods and beverages, and describe their importance for growth, health, learning, and physical performance

Personal Safety and Injury Prevention

Identify risks associated with communications technology, including Internet use, texting, and gaming, and describe precautions and strategies for using these technologies safely

Describe various types of bullying, abuse, and other non consensual behaviour, including cyberbullying, and identify the impacts they can have and appropriate ways of responding

Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours

Identify substances found in tobacco products and smoke and describe their effects on health

Human Development and Sexual Health

Describe the physical changes that occur at puberty and the emotional and social impacts that may result from these changes

2 – Making Healthy Choices

Healthy Eating

Identify personal eating habits through self-monitoring over time, and set a goal for developing healthier eating habits, on the basis of the recommendations and guidelines in Canada’s Food Guides

Personal Safety and Injury Prevention

Apply a decision-making process to assess risks and make safe decisions in a variety of situations

Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours

Demonstrate the ability to make and support healthy, informed choices about smoking and vaping, using their understanding of factors that affect decisions about smoking and vaping and a variety of social-emotional learning skills

Human Development and Sexual Health

Demonstrate an understanding of personal care needs and the application of personal hygienic practices associated with the onset of puberty

Mental Health Literacy

Demonstrate an understanding of how choices they make every day can have a positive impact on their mental health

3 – Making Connections for Healthy Living

Healthy Eating

Identify ways of promoting healthier eating habits in a variety of settings and situations

Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours

Describe the short- and long-term effects of first- and secondhand smoke on smokers and on people around them, and the effects of vaping

Mental Health Literacy

Demonstrate an understanding of different strategies they can use to manage stress in situations in which they have some control as well as to adapt to challenging situations over which they have less immediate influence